Perturbations of general relativity to all orders and the general n^th order terms

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2023)112arXiv2209.11424OpenAlexW4360985880MaRDI QIDQ6158613FDOQ6158613

Authors: Kyoungho Cho, Kwangeon Kim, Kanghoon Lee 

Publication date: 31 May 2023

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive all-order expressions for perturbations of the Einstein-Hilbert action and the Einstein equation with the general $n$-th order terms of the perturbative expansions. We investigate the perturbations in three different formulations of GR classified according to their fundamental fields. Remarkably, we find minimal building blocks that generate the entire perturbations in a convention of metric perturbations for each of our formulations. We show that the number of terms of perturbations grows linearly as the order of perturbations increases. We regard the convention as a reference and discuss how to generalise the results in the reference to other conventions of metric perturbations. As a consistency check, we compute graviton scattering amplitudes using the perturbiner method based on the perturbative Einstein equation. Finally we discuss how to generalise the results to curved backgrounds and incorporate additional matter.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11424

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

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